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File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No.
16707 GRIST 2060894 Frank 251

Rank
Organization
Cause of Death Date of Death
Corporal Company M, 131st Infantry Killed in Action 8/10/1918

Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery
Commune

Authority
File No. D
Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery
Commune
C-264 
GRS form-, 16-A Commune Bray sur Somme
E137.68 N361.6  

Authority
File No. D
Disinterred and Reburied: Date  8/10/1926 Cemetery 636 
22288 In:  American Cemetery, Flanders Field, Bony, Aisne, morgue Mortuary at bony, Aisne

Emergency Address Mary Grist(Mother), Hillsdale, Penna. Notified Emergency Address
9/13/1918

R.B. Sketch No.
Photograph No.
 

Grave Marker Name Peg
  
Cross
  
Head Board
  
Bottle
  
Ident. Tag Buried with body
  
On grave marker
  

Remarks: AGO card gives mother's address as Hillsville, Pa. Sheet 18 & 3, #12, 2/26/19, sheet 1843  

Removal Project Information
Body disinterred 1/12/1927 for preparation and shipment.
Arrived at  Dunkerque or Dunkirk
Shipped to Brooklyn, NY on 3/25/1927 aboard the Independence Hall
Arrived at Brooklyn, NY on 4/11/1927
Shipped to Quartermaster Supply Office, Q. M. Intermediate Depot. Wash., D.C.
Received at Destination  on 4/14/1927 by Charles W. Porter

Permanent Burial in National Cemetery
Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia
Grave: 
4715 Section:   European
Reburied (date):  4/21/1927

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